Pith Number

pith:VRQDEMXU

pith:2014:VRQDEMXUSQUN5JVTDMQLG2T5GW

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Testing Fundamental Particle Physics with the Galactic White Dwarf Luminosity Function

Brenda E. Melendez, Jordi Isern, Leandro G. Althaus, Marcelo M. Miller Bertolami

arxiv:1410.1677 v1 · 2014-10-07 · hep-ph · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRQDEMXUSQUN5JVTDMQLG2T5GW}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:40:55.089673Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac603232f49428dea6b31b20b36a7d358822054727cccf3841e520ece5cd9897

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.1677 · arxiv_version: 1410.1677v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.1677 · pith_short_12: VRQDEMXUSQUN · pith_short_16: VRQDEMXUSQUN5JVT · pith_short_8: VRQDEMXU

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VRQDEMXUSQUN5JVTDMQLG2T5GW \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ac603232f49428dea6b31b20b36a7d358822054727cccf3841e520ece5cd9897

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73259102818200a330f93023ece9f9d21e72293f1c683e0decc36a432d054338",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-07T11:02:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8d99e9347bd624d01d860b4c1b9bd43308b0be4d82e99e44a4e2390d7202cb63"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.1677",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}